Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #3310FY0001

G.A.P. - Girls Advocacy Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Ruth Shack

Organization:

Dade Community Foundation, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

G.A.P. - Girls Advocacy Project

Date Submitted:

2/20/01 4:28:21 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsors:

Rudolfo Garcia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statewide Interest:

GAP is currently the only program that serves female juveniles detained in the DJJ Detention Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Dade Community Foundation, Inc.

Contact:

Ruth Shack

 

200 South Biscayne Blvd.

Contact Phone:

(305) 371-2711

 

 

Miami 33131

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties:

Dade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service Area:

Private Organization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Girls Advocacy Project (GAP)  works in collaboration with the Department of Juvenile Justice Detention Center personnel.  Project personnel review the intake, orientation and education procedures for girls and coordinates a schedule for gender-specific group talks.  The GAP staff also review other pertinent data such as each grils school and arrest history.  Proceeding the introduction session, five intensive, educational group talks lasting two-hours each are presented every other day (excluding weekends) in fourteen-day rotations.  In addition to the group talks,  there are one-to-one individual talks, the use of a GAP journal, interaction with the Public Defenders Office, and the Department of Juvenile Justice.  A community advisory board was also formed in January 2000 that recruits individuals from the community private and public foundations in the education, care and services to needed girls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

The Girls Advocacy Project is a project that serves female juvenile detained in the Department of Juvenile Justice Detention Center.  Currently these are the only services that are offered in detention.  The GAP has had almost 2000 girls volunteer to participate in this program to date.  The GAP works in collaboration with the Department of Juvenile Justice, the community (via a community advisory board), and court agents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$150,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$150,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type of funding match:

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

Yes

 

 

Fiscal Year:

2000-2001

Amount:

$116,067

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

 

No

 

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

Yes

 

 

Documentation:

GAP project evaluator reports, OJJDP reports on juvenile female delinquency.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

Yes

 

 

Hearing Body:

Miami Dade Legislative Delegation

 

Meeting Date:

1/17/01